April Jazz is an annually Jazz festival organized by Espoo Big Band ry. It consists of several venues around Tapiola and I did the lighting and stage design for the main stage. Visuals were done by Paula Lehtonen.

The 2014 design was combination of old and new. We wanted to keep the iconic honeycomb custom structures as a part of the design, but also evolve it as the venue grew bigger.

Lighting the performers is always as essential as creating interesting design. To focus the light just where it's needed I had a rig of 10 moving heads with shutters and invited Eero Alava to operate them. In comparison to conventional follow spots this solution gave more freedom with the directions of light as follow spots require much space and also lots of crew.